Arobi's Queen: A Mate Index Romance (The Mate Index Book 11) by S.J. Sanders

Author:S.J. Sanders [Sanders, S.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

“Tanji is… reckless? shortsighted? Enthusiastic.”

The words followed Tanji as he loped down the hall to where their queen rested. Hadn’t he proved himself enough on the trip from the space station? Simah was the one who let the female walk all over him. Sure, Tanji enjoyed playing and teasing, but he knew well when it was time to stop joking and start fighting. He knew when to bend with their queen and when to be firm… and he demonstrated his ability to keep her safe when the Vazith threatened her. Would Simah have been capable of doing the same?

He smirked, his tail lashing behind him as he picked up his pace. Simah hated to fight and would have waited to act until it was too late. It was the same weakness that Tanji used against him when sparring. The male was reluctant to strike unless he was provoked into defending himself. The only time he seemed to act quickly was when it came to the hunt. The male could never best him and yet talked as if there was a problem with him!

Tanji let out a snort of bitter laughter. He was the better male, and they both knew it.

He knew he was a worthwhile male. His master could have gotten any amount of money if he had put Tanji in a stud pack, but instead he gave him, barely weaned, to his sickly daughter as a playmate who had taken one look at his light mane and begged for him. She had been his mistress, and she was his tightly guarded secret.

He had shared her room with her, playing with her and keeping her company, providing comfort on days when she was in too much pain to leave her bed. At her insistence, they initiated each other into the delights of the flesh, and he had held her against his heart as often as she allowed. In matters of the heart, despite it being forbidden between their species, he had considered her his mate. He had loved Amika until the very day that she didn’t wake. Then he had grieved for her, his grief so profound that it only doubled when the master sold him to a male who kept stud packs.

Tanji had fought the entire way. He refused to breed after knowing what it was to join with one whom he loved. Even though he was not an alpha, his genetic material would have added to the young, and in fact would have been necessary to the survival of any offspring bred. His refusal to participate had earned him punishments upon punishments before he was finally separated from the stud pack and sold. He never imagined that he would truly have a queen, and now that he had one once more, nothing would separate him from her side.

Let the others scorn him… oh, laughter-loving Tanji who is always teasing and bumbling. He did not care what words they pinned on him. All that mattered was their queen.

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